Kanazawa University research: Sodium channel investigation
KANAZAWA, Japan, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Nature Communications a high-speed atomic force microscopy study of the structural dynamics of sodium ion channels in cell membranes.
- KANAZAWA, Japan, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Nature Communications a high-speed atomic force microscopy study of the structural dynamics of sodium ion channels in cell membranes.
- An important open question is whether the voltage sensor domains dissociate from the pore domains when the channel closes.
- One is the sodium channel of a particular bacterium (Arcobacter butzleri), the other two are mutants thereof.
- In recent years, researchers at Kanazawa University have further developed HS-AFM so that it can be applied for studying biochemical molecules and biomolecular processes in real-time.